Drug smuggling

Traffickers Find Delicious New Way to Smuggle Coke

Drug traffickers are an inventive bunch. They have to be, really, because these days it's generally fairly hard to walk through airport security with 50kg of cocaine strapped to your body. Usually, their methods work: despite the billions of dollars spent fighting the drug trade, more people are getting high than ever before (almost like the War on Drugs is a wildly pointless exercise?). But not always.

On Wednesday, Spanish and Portuguese police revealed that a joint operation had resulted in the seizure of 745kg of cocaine hidden in plastic tubes inserted into fresh pineapples. The investigation, which took place over a ten-month period, led to nine arrests and broke up an international smuggling ring led by Colombians.